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Ghalghoul: a neighborhood erased

  • byHabib Battah
  • Oct 22, 2017
Before and after pictures were at the heart of the project to rebuild downtown Beirut following the Lebanese…
CCulture & Heritage
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  • 3 minute read

One of Beirut’s oldest blocks demolished

  • byHabib Battah
  • Sep 6, 2017
What had been one of the most beautiful and historic buildings on Jeanne d’Arc street will soon be…
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Join events this week to help save Beirut heritage sites

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 15, 2017
Beirut activists are fighting hard to preserve two of the city’s key heritage sites and you can support…
CCulture & Heritage
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Historic Laziza brewery demolition begins, can it be stopped?

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 27, 2017
  A number of images are appearing on social media today documenting the demolition of one of Lebanon’s…
CCulture & Heritage
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Demolition of Art Deco building resumes, despite governor’s order

  • byHabib Battah
  • Mar 15, 2017
Two years ago the Governor of Beirut issued an order to stop demolition of this historically listed Art…
CCulture & Heritage
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Inside Beit Beirut

  • byHabib Battah
  • May 17, 2016
Beit Beirut, Lebanon’s first memory museum, is finally getting ready to open its doors. After at least a…
CCulture & Heritage
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Campaign to save “Red House”

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 17, 2016
It seems everywhere you turn in Hamra, there is a new tower coming up. None of them affordable…
CCulture & Heritage
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Losing Aabrine, erasing a neighborhood

  • byHabib Battah
  • Apr 23, 2015
Gabriel Daher, who is known for posting beautiful images of old Beirut, posted something a bit different today.…
CCulture & Heritage
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Jack’s (abandoned) Hideaway

  • byHabib Battah
  • Feb 16, 2015
This place has been closed for as long as I can remember. It’s located on the bottom floor…
CCulture & Heritage
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Lost interiors: Inside Lords Hotel for the last time

  • byHabib Battah
  • Jan 26, 2015
I managed to capture the final moments of Lord’s Hotel this afternoon. The gradual destruction of this 1950s…
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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.
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